The Paradoxes of Modernity : Creating Belief through Art, Community, and Ritual

The Paradoxes of Modernity examines one of the central dilemmas of the modern world: How do we believe in ideas that we know to be untrue, but are of practical value? The modern world tells us to be critical and independent. And yet it also proliferates constructed ideas, from gods to ethical ideals...

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主要作者: Simpson, Zachary
格式: Livre numérique
語言:Anglais
出版: Cham : Springer International Publishing [20..].
Cham : Springer Nature
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Edition sous un autre format:• The Paradoxes of Modernity, Texte imprimé, 9783030990558
• The Paradoxes of Modernity, Texte imprimé, 9783030990572
• The Paradoxes of Modernity, Texte imprimé, 9783030990589
書本目錄:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction (with added material on modernity)
  • Chapter 2: Skepticism and Beyond
  • Chapter 3: Noble Lies, Fantasies, and Fictions
  • Chapter 4: The Religious Story
  • Chapter 5: Modernity and the Temporal Shift
  • Chapter 6: A Philosophy of Fictions
  • Chapter 7: Art, Narrative, and Commitment
  • Chapter 8: Community
  • Chapter 9: Ritual
  • Chapter 10: The Subject
  • Chapter 11: Pretending Our Way to Fulfillment (with added section on myth)
  • Chapter 12: The Work of Mourning (with further elaboration on religion and myth).